Wangfujing
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Wangfujing street (Simplified Chinese 王府井; Hanyu Pinyin: Wángfǔjǐng Dàjiē) in Beijing is one of the Chinese capital's most famous shopping streets. Much of the road is off-limits to cars and other motor vehicles, and it is not rare to see the entire street full of people, turned into one of China´s most attractive and modern boulevards. The street name has its origins in the Wang Family's estate, whose well was deemed to be a national landmark and can still be seen while traversing the shop-lined streets.
It starts from Wangfujing Nankou, where the Oriental Plaza and the Beijing Hotel are located. It then heads north, passing the Wangfujing Xinhua Bookstore, the Beijing Department Store as well as the Beijing Foreign Languages Bookstore before terminating at the Sun Dong An Plaza.
Prior to the late 1990s trolleybuses, buses, and other traffic ran through the street, making it rather congested.
Wangfujing is served by the Beijing subway networks, just one stop away from Tiananmen Square to the west. Line 1 has a station at the southern end of the street, which bears the same name.
